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Klezmer – Music with a Jewish Soul

Klezmer – Music with a Jewish Soul

(Author: Alan Jacobs, Vol. 64, #1, Pesach 2009)   Feature image: Israeli clarinetist Giora Feidman...

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Chanukah –Why a “Festival of Lights”?

Chanukah –Why a “Festival of Lights”?

(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 65, No. 3, Chanukah 2010)   Chanukah has another name –...

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Yiddish Civilization: The story of Yiddish and the people who spoke it

Yiddish Civilization: The story of Yiddish and the people who spoke it

(Author: Bernard Katz, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) Feature image: The Sarah Sylvia...

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Music of the Jews in the First and Second Temple Periods

Music of the Jews in the First and Second Temple Periods

(Author: Alan Jacobs, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010) Solomon built the first Temple...

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The Fundamental Significance of Foreign Language in Worship: A Response to David Benatar

The Fundamental Significance of Foreign Language in Worship: A Response to David Benatar

(Author: Dr. Azila Talit Reisenberger, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010)   In his...

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The Creation Story in Bereishit: A Literary Study

The Creation Story in Bereishit: A Literary Study

(Author: Gloria Sandak-Lewin, Vol. 65, No. 2, Rosh Hashanah 2010)    The opening chapters of...

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Free to Choose

Free to Choose

(Author: Charlotte Cohen, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010)   Each Jewish festival seems to give...

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The Alleppo Codex

The Alleppo Codex

(Author: Simon Berg, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2010)     One of the most significant...

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The Irony of Faith: Sholom Aleichem’s ‘Dreyfus in Kasrilevke’

The Irony of Faith: Sholom Aleichem’s ‘Dreyfus in Kasrilevke’

(Author: Joseph Sherman, Vol. 65 #1, Pesach 2020/First published in Jewish Affairs, Summer 1994)  ...

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Holocaust, History and Memorabilia: The SAJBD Cape Council and the Preservation of the South African Jewish Past

Holocaust, History and Memorabilia: The SAJBD Cape Council and the Preservation of the South African Jewish Past

(Author: Gwynne Schrire, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011) Feature image: Engraved silver salver presented...

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Richard Feldman: His Yiddish and English Writings

Richard Feldman: His Yiddish and English Writings

(Author: Mona Berman, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011)    The convoluted route through which...

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The Bobbe Malke – A Woman’s Tale of Vanished Eastern Europe

The Bobbe Malke – A Woman’s Tale of Vanished Eastern Europe

(Author: Cedric Ginsberg, Vol. 66, No. 1, Pesach 2011)   1)     Introductory Essay On a...

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An I.B. Singer Retrospective: The “Family Chronicles”: The Family Moskat (1950)

An I.B. Singer Retrospective: The “Family Chronicles”: The Family Moskat (1950)

(Author: Gloria Sandak-Lewin, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013)   This is the fourth and...

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In the beginning was a school: The Alliance Israélite Universelle and its Legacy

In the beginning was a school: The Alliance Israélite Universelle and its Legacy

(Author Anny Wynchank, Vol. 68, No. 3, Chanukah 2013)   The Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU)1...

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